“It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy groves.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Hell, Death, beauty
“Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Men, emotions, Feelings, Destruction
“If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my memory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think if, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is st…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Forgetting, Memories, Death
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: yesterday, tomorrow, Past, Future
“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Love, Envy, Insecurity
“Love is never any better than the lover.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Love, Lover, Relationships, Dating
“Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, Flying
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: American, white, nationality
“Love is divine only and difficult always.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Love, divine, difficult, Relationships
“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: Repression, confined, trapped
“Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Anger, Awareness, Feelings, emotions
“Seeing her step so easily from the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Sex, Happiness, unremarkable
“It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide D…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Death, Dying, Suicide, Safe
“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? The blueberries? The whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Gone, Dating, Men, Alone
“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Evil, Survival, Triumph, Win
“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Missing, good fortune, Lucky
“Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way t…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Family, Belonging, family members
“It was becoming a habit--this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Past, Future, Concentration
“Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fi…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Evil, Goodness, Violence, Love
“A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.comTagged: Dreams, nightmares, Sleeping